Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-10-27

.ing of the present year. The climate
fer large portion of the year is fair
and mild as that of Italy, and although
IN midwinter rude blasts laden with
snow occasionally sweep over her plains,
these but insure more splendid harvests
for the following summer and give re-
doubled life and vigor to the people.
To whatever honest employment one
turns his hand in Kansas, and follows
it with the energy and industry becom-
ing an American and man, he is GER
tain to meet due reward. Why,
therefore, it is again demanded, should
not the best brain and blood OF the
world seek Judgement in Kansas, and
why should not her population grow
apace? Marvellous as the increase has
been, it is still easily accounted for.
But rapid increase in population
might be calamity rather than bles-
sing, if weather and the means of sub
sistance did not keep pace with that in
crease. How has it been in Kansas?
Look here: For the five years ending
with 1870 the value of her farm crops
was $50, 100000; for the next 5, $780,
600, 600; for the next, 1854, OOO, 900,
and for the five ending with 1885 they
aggregated the enormous value OF $780,
100000. We have not at hand the
date for an exact estimate Of the value
Of the farm crops for the present year,
but although Kansas has, with num-
Der of her sisters, suffered little from
deficiency of rain, they will not fall
short of 100000, 600; and the aggre-
gate value from the five years ending
with 1890 vii easily reach round bill
lion of dollars. OF the 81, 900, 600
acres of land in Kansas, one-half only
is as yet used for cultivation and graz
ing, and perhaps not more than ~
600, coo acres have been subjected to
the plow. These facts indicate that
great as Kansas is, she is really only
yet in her infancy, and that the full
development of her agricultural re-
sources will be on a scale of grandeur
surprising that of Mesopotamia In
times of old, and making seem insight
ficant the fertility and productiveness
the valley of the Nile.
1t is upon her soil, perhaps, exhaust
less as a source of wealth. that Kansas
will mainly depend; but she offers one
Of the fairest fields for manufacturing
enterprises that can be found in the
world, and already the value of her
manufactured products begin to assume
striking dimensions. They amounted
to over $4S, 100000 in 1886; they will
probably run up to between $50, 900,
900 an6 800, 100000 during the pres
ent year. There is abundance of water
power in the state, and the riches OF
the commonwealth in coal, as we'll as
in other minerals, are but beginning to
be known and developed. "But Kan
sas has no TIMBER Hasn't she,
though? How came it then that du-
ring last year that nearly quarter OF
a million dollars worth of native wood
was cut and sold? And then if she
needs more trees she can grow them
faster than any other locality, and is in
fact doing this on very large scele.
But as lntlmated in the beginning,
the theme is endless in it's rami6cations
We do not want any one to leave oul
own Ohio: but we know that thousands
do leave every year, perhaps every
month, for some portion of the great
West, and to all such we can candidly,
and we believe truthfully say, that to
whatever pursuit they intend to devote
their lives they can find no fairer home
than in the land of Kansas, no scene
of more picturesque and attractive
beauty and no place in all our extend
ed country that promises surer returns
to industry, capital, sobriety, energy
and thrift.